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| Ramzan Kadyrov sez he'll kill Basayev himself |
| 2005-02-25 |
| Deputy prime minister of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has promised to kill rebel warlord Shamil Basayev. "I give you my word of honor, I will kill Basayev. He is my enemy, my natural enemy. I will not do it to make Russia feel happy, not to make myself feel happy. He is not a man, he is a beast. He must be buried three meters underground," Kadyrov said in an interview to the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. Kadyrov, a son of the slain Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov, said he will get his revenge whether he is "serving Russia" or not. "I will finish what my father started," he said. He refuted reports that he was involved in the kidnapping of rebel gunmen's relatives. "I do not wage war on relatives, I wage war on those who run and kill our people." He also criticized human rights activists over concerns connected with the kidnapping of relatives of separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov. "Why, don't they think that Basayev and Maskhadov kill thousands of people?" Kadyrov asked. He added that it was the separatists themselves who kidnapped Maskhadov's relatives because the relatives had wanted to announce that Maskhadov was ready to surrender. "We will continue our revenge and it will be a 100-percent revenge. While Maskhadov and Basayev are alive, this revenge will continue. And we will kill Basayev and Maskhadov, and this way, we will finish all this," Kadyrov said. He added that he will not reveal information about his father's murder while Basayev is alive. "I follow orders. If the Kremlin tells me to hold negotiations, I will hold them with certain people. But never in my life will I talk to Basayev or Maskhadov. They are killers, they gave orders to kill civilians. They killed the heads of our villages, the directors of our schools, our policemen. Let the prosecutors talk to them." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 sounds like my kind of justice |
| Posted by: Thraing Hupoluper1864 2005-02-25 4:26:44 PM |